Recent advances in bioremediation of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants: A review.

Muhammad Aammar Tufail, Jawaria Iltaf, Tahreem Zaheer, Leeza Tariq, Muhammad Bilal Amir, Rida Fatima, Ayesha Asbat, Tahira Kabeer, Muhammad Fahad, Hamna Naeem, Usama Shoukat, Hazrat Noor, Muhammad Awais, Wajid Umar, Muhaimen Ayyub

Journal: The Science of the total environment 2022;850():157961

PMID: 35963399

Abstract

Heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants are causing detrimental effects on the environment. The seepage of heavy metals through untreated industrial waste destroys the crops and lands. Moreover, incineration and combustion of several products are responsible for primary and secondary emissions of pollutants. This review has gathered the remediation strategies, current bioremediation technologies, and their primary use in both in situ and ex situ methods, followed by a detailed explanation for bioremediation over other techniques. However, an amalgam of bioremediation techniques and nanotechnology could be a breakthrough in cleaning the environment by degrading heavy metals and persistant organic pollutants.

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Address: Institute for General Microbiology, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].; Institute of Chemistry, University of Sargodha, 40100, Pakistan.; Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.; Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore 53700, Pakistan.; Key Laboratory of Insect Ecology and Molecular Biology, College of Plant Health and Medicine, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China.; School of Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.; Department of Pharmacy, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.; Center of Agriculture Biochemistry and Biotechnology CABB, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.; Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.; Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, The Mall, 46000 Rawalpindi, Pakistan.; Integrated Genomics Cellular Development Biology Lab, Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.; Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.; International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan.; Institute of Environmental Science, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő 2100, Hungary.; Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan.

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